The Grave

6/6/2026

**_Craig Sheffer, Gabrielle Anwar and a hidden treasure in the sweltering rural South_** With a name like “The Grave,” I was thinking this might have a horror/supernatural bent, but the lighthearted ‘redneck’ music right out of the gate dismissed this assumption. The beginning is reminiscent of the first act of “Runaway Train,” just switching the locale from a remote prison in the Far North to one in the Deep South. Eric Roberts even shows up for a bit part. But, really, this is a precursor to “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”, albeit more serious and tragic, not to mention with less agreeable characters. Another comparison would be “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” if it were a short ’n’ sweet Southern Gothic made thirty years later. David Gordon Green’s “Undertow” (2004) is yet another p